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Vous savez, ces mauvaises choses qui arrivent aux gens bien ? C’est moi.
Mon nom c’est Charley et je suis la Faucheuse.
Les morts, je connais : j’en vois depuis que je suis née. Des fois, je les aide à faire des trucs du genre laisser un mot à leurs proches ou traquer leur assassin… Ça tombe bien parce que je suis aussi détective privée ! Pratique, non ? Ce qui l’est moins, c’est que les gens autour de moi ont du mal à y croire. Comme Swopes, l’agent avec qui je bosse : je voudrais qu’il me lâche un peu la grappe.
Cela dit, je pourrais le gérer si je n’avais pas d’autres chats à fouetter… comme ce bel inconnu qui vient me rendre visite toutes les nuits dans des rêves torrides et dont j’aimerais bien découvrir l’identité…
Scène coupée de "Première tombe sur la droite".
Dans mon premier jet, l'interrogatoire au commissariat se déroulait différemment. Ensuite, j'ai décidé qu'on avait envie d'aimer Julio Ontiveros, alors je l'ai changé. Mais voici la version originale.
Contexte : Charley va interroger le témoin potentiel d'un homicide, au grand dam d'un sergent extrêmement sceptique et d'un oncle inquiet.
Publiée dans l'anthologie "Les Amants des ténèbres".
Description anglaise:
Things get turned upside down for sophomore Lorelei MacAlister when the Angel of Death starts high school in her small town. What she doesn’t know is that she has been slated to die. It’s simply her time. And Death has been sent to do the deed. But when she touches him, when she peers into his eyes and reaches into his heart, he realizes she is more than what he was led to believe, and he disobeys his orders. He brings her back from the brink of death when he was supposed to push her into it. Because of this, he gets trapped on this plane. And that’s when all hell breaks loose. Literally.
Traduction approximative:
Les choses se renversent pour l'étudiante de deuxième année Lorelei MacAlister lorsque qu'un Ange de la Mort commence l'école secondaire de sa petite ville. Ce qu'elle ne sait pas, c'est que sa mort est prévue pour bientôt. C'est tout simplement son heure. Et la mort a été envoyé pour le faire. Mais quand elle le touche, quand elle regarde dans ses yeux et atteint son cœur, il se rend compte qu'elle est plus que ce qu'il a été amené à croire, et il désobéit à ses ordres. Il la ramène vers la vie alors qu'il était censé la pousser au bord du gouffre de la mort. À cause de cela, il est piégé dans notre monde. Et c'est à ce moment que l'enfer se déchaîne. Littéralement.
New York Times bestselling author Darynda Jones is back with the brand-new snarky, sassy, wickedly fun Sunshine Vicram series!
Sheriff Sunshine Vicram finds her cup o’ joe more than half full when the small village of Del Sol, New Mexico, becomes the center of national attention for a kidnapper on the loose.
Del Sol, New Mexico is known for three things: its fry-an-egg-on-the-cement summers, it’s strong cups of coffee―and a nationwide manhunt? Del Sol native Sunshine Vicram has returned to town as the elected sheriff—an election her adorably meddlesome parents entered her in—and she expects her biggest crime wave to involve an elderly flasher named Doug. But a teenage girl is missing, a kidnapper is on the loose, and all of it’s reminding Sunny why she left Del Sol in the first place. Add to that trouble at her daughter’s new school and a kidnapped prized rooster named Puff Daddy, and Sunshine has her hands full.
Enter sexy almost-old-flame Levi Ravinder and a hunky US Marshall, both elevens on a scale of one to blazing inferno, and the normally savvy sheriff is quickly in over her head. Now it’s up to Sunshine to juggle a few good hunky men, a not-so-nice kidnapping miscreant, and Doug the ever-pesky flasher. And they said coming home would be drama-free.
A Paranormal Women's Fiction with a bit of class, and a lot of sass, for anyone who feels like age is just a number!
Divorced, desperate, and destitute, former restaurateur Defiance Dayne finds out she has been bequeathed a house by a complete stranger. She is surprised, to say the least, and her curiosity gets the better of her. She leaves her beloved Phoenix and heads to one of the most infamous towns in America: Salem, Massachusetts.
She’s only there to find out why a woman she’s never met would leave her a house. A veritable castle that has seen better days. She couldn’t possibly accept it, but the lawyer assigned to the case practically begs her to take it off her hands, mostly because she’s scared of it. The house. The inanimate structure that, as far as Dephne can tell, has never hurt a fly.
Though it does come with some baggage. A pesky neighbor who wants her gone. A scruffy cat who’s a bit of a jerk. And a handyman bathed in ink who could moonlight as a supermodel for GQ.
She decides to give it three days, and not because of the model. She feels at home in Salem. Safe. But even that comes to a screeching halt when people begin knocking on her door day and night, begging for her help to locate their lost objects.
Come to find out, they think she’s a witch. And after a few mysterious mishaps, Dephne is beginning to wonder if they’re right.
Beneath you, around you, through you, just beyond the edge of all that you know and all that you are, a blink and a breath away, like a whisper upon your skin, lies the unknown.
Behold the NeverNeath.
The NeverNeath is a bundle of exciting new serialized stories set in a realm that lies just beyond human perception. This is the story of a monster who believed himself unworthy of love and the girl who proved him wrong.
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Quatre récits inédits par les plus grands noms de la bit-lit.
Retrouvez les personnages de vos séries de bit-lit préférées dans quatre aventures signées par les maîtresses du genre : Lara Adrian, Larissa Ione, Alexandra Ivy et Darynda Jones.
Les vampires de Minuit, les démons de Demonica, la gargouille des Gardiens de l’éternité et Charley Davidson, la Faucheuse hors pair, vous attendent dans quatre nouvelles inédites qui vous permettront de plonger (ou replonger) dans ces univers incontournables !
Sommaire :
"Un avant-goût de minuit" Lara Adrian
"Immortalité assumée" - Larissa Ione
"Levet" - Alexandra Ivy
"Parce que j ai péché" - Darynda Jones
"Le problème avec Charley" - Darynda Jones
"Scènes coupées" - Darynda Jones
A midwinter holiday fantasy romance anthology…
From Darynda Jones, a standalone novella set in a world where vampyres are hunted for sport. The only thing standing between them and total annihilation is Winter, a warrior bred to save them from extinction. Forbidden to fall in love, Winter cares only about her oaths… until she meets the devilish prince of the underworld.
Amanda Bouchet transports The Kingmaker Chronicles to modern-day New York City. An exiled warrior finds himself in the Big Apple just before the holidays. On a vital mission for Athena, he meets an imperiled French teacher from Connecticut, and soon they’re knee-deep in inexplicable phenomena.
Grace Draven brings a novella-length expansion of a stand-alone short story in which a cursed mage-king from a frozen kingdom is obligated to marry a woman of high-ranking nobility but meets his soulmate in a lowly scribe.
From Jeffe Kennedy comes a standalone novella in the Dark Wizard world, where an ancient holiday is resurrected and clandestine lovers find the courage to pursue forbidden joy.
Sunshine Vicram - 3
The blockbuster conclusion to the bestselling Sunshine Vicram trilogy
"Laugh-out-loud funny, intensely suspenseful, page-turning fun." --New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan
Some people greet the day with open arms. Sheriff Sunshine Vicram would rather give it a hearty shove and get back into bed, because there's just too much going on right now. There's a series of women going missing, and Sunny feels powerless to stop it. There's her persistent and awesomely-rebellious daughter Auri, who's out to singlehandedly become Del Sol's youngest and fiercest investigator. And then there's drama with Levi Ravinder--the guy she's loved and lusted after for years. The guy who might just be her one and only. The guy who comes from a family of disingenuous vipers looking to oust him--and Sunshine--for good.
Like we said, the new day can take a hike.
Compulsively readable, laugh-out-loud funny, and brimming with big-hearted characters, A Hard Day for a Hangover will have readers cheering to the very last page.
Eric Vause is done.
Done with ghosts. Done with hellhounds. And definitely done with asshole demons, mostly because he’d been possessed by one. Even now, five years later, the rage he absorbed from the creature has yet to wane, so he decides a road trip is in order. Surely some cool air, great scenery, and a case of Dos Equis will shake things loose. Unfortunately, supernatural events happen everywhere. When he meets up with a friend whose partner’s daughter needs help with a pest problem—aka, a ghost—Eric takes that as his cue to leave.
Until he sees her.
He can tell Halle’s house isn’t the only thing that is haunted. The hopelessness behind her eyes tugs at something deep inside him. Something all too familiar. The fact that she’s the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen has nothing to do with his change of heart. And he vows to leave her in his rearview the minute he takes care of the poltergeist. Then again, vows were never his strong suit.